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Attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU Foundation of Connecticut will defend the state’s transgender-inclusive student athletics policy on behalf of two transgender athletes before a full panel hearing of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals on June 6, 2023.
Legislation now awaits action by Governor Lamont.
The Connecticut House of Representatives today voted to pass S.B. 1071, a bill to ban police from using deceptive interrogation tactics against children. The legislation now awaits action by Governor Lamont.
The Connecticut Senate today voted to pass a bill to create early voting in the state beginning in 2024.The legislation now awaits action by Governor Lamont.
Two new plaintiffs have joined Beatty v. Lamont, a lawsuit seeking to eliminate Connecticut’s “prison debt” law, under which the state forces people it incarcerated to pay hundreds of dollars for each day they spent in prison.
Survivors of police deceptive interrogation, advocates, legislators, and national experts gathered to call on the legislature to pass S.B. 1071, a bill to end deceptive police interrogations of children.